Wind minister
| Wind minister | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Jazz rock |
| founding | 1980 |
| Founding members | |
guitar |
Eberhard Klunker |
Guitar, drums
|
Olaf Wegener |
| Klaus Renft | |
| Thomas Monster Schoppe | |
singing |
Christiane Ufholz |
| Current occupation | |
| Eberhard Klunker | |
Acoustic guitar |
Olaf Wegener |
Windminister is a guitar duo from Berlin . The band name alludes to the adventurous escape of the two guitarists Eberhard Klunker and Olaf Wegener from the GDR .
Band history
Both are self-taught and started out as amateur musicians . Klunker acquired his musical skills from Klaus Lenz and the Modern Soul Band and Wegener as a drummer with Medoc and Reinhard Lakomy . At the beginning of the 1970s, they completed a three-year training course at the Musikhochschule in Berlin-Friedrichshain before switching to the Hansi Biebl Blues Band as a professional musician in 1974 , which was banned from working in 1975 after their 16-hour flight in an inflatable boat across the Baltic Sea.
Together with Klaus Renft and Renft's long-time companions Thomas Monster Schoppe and Christiane Ufholz , they founded the band Windminister in West Berlin in 1980 . After the first and only joint appearance on January 12, 1980 in West Berlin's Latin Quarter , Potsdamer Str. 96, which turned out to be a failure, the Windminister band project failed for the time being. Although Klunker and Wegener then played in different bands, including in the USA and the Netherlands, they never lost sight of each other and the band project. In the 1990s they accompanied Christiane Ufholz on a tour through the New Federal States . This was so successful that Ufholz started their comeback in 1995 and Klunker and Wegener revived Windminister as a guitar duo in 1997 . In 2005 the “Harp” music label released their first compact disc , a hybrid SACD , which was particularly successful in the USA. In the piece "Boatswain" their escape is processed musically. The record cover on the same topic shows an oil painting by Christiane Ufholz. On the occasion of Klaus Renft's 60th birthday, Klunker and Wegener performed together with the former band members for the first time.
Characteristic
The band, originally founded as a rock band , has been presenting instrumental guitar music based on jazz and classical music since 1997 and dispensing with electronic effects. The two guitarists play James Goodall guitars. The repertoire consists exclusively of original compositions.
Discography
- 2005: Boatswain (Hybrid-SACD) at Label Harp (H'ART)
literature
- Michael Rauhut , Thomas Kochan (Eds.): Bye, Bye Lübben City . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .
- Klaus Renft : The armament of the nightingale: Diaries by Klaus Renft 1968 to 1997. Edited by Undine Materni and Heike Stephan. BuschFunk , Berlin 2015, ISBN 9783944058450
Web links
- Portrait at deutsche-mugge.de
- Interview on ostmusik.de ( Memento from March 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Portrait at blueser54.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wind ministers inspire Schleiz audience In: Ostthüringer Zeitung (from May 8, 2007)
- ↑ Tina Torgeln In: Melodie und Rhythmus , Berlin, Issue 5/6 2005
- ↑ So it was with the escape In: Märkische Allgemeine (from October 27, 2005)
- ↑ Interview on the Open Canal Berlin [1]
- ↑ Wind ministers inspire Schleiz audience In: Ostthüringer Zeitung (from May 8, 2007)